Comcast, ABC News, and Walt Disney Internet Group Sign Landmark Broadband Distribution Deal
Comcast, ABC News, and Walt Disney Internet Group Sign Landmark Broadband Distribution Deal Printer Friendly Version ABC News on demand video and ABC News Live launch today on Comcast.net Comcast announces its online Kids Channel, to include Disney family content PHILADELPHIA, NEW YORK, & NORTH HOLLYWOOD, Calif. - July 21, 2004 - Comcast, the nation's leading broadband Internet provider, ABC News and the Walt Disney Internet Group (WDIG) today announced one of the industry's most comprehensive broadband content distribution deals to date. This agreement makes ABC News on demand video and ABC News Live, 24/7 live streaming news programming, immediately and easily accessible to Comcast's 5.7+ million High-Speed Internet customers, at no additional cost. Comcast also announced today that it plans to launch an online Kids Channel. Disney will provide Disney Connection, its broadband entertainment destination for kids ages 3-11, to support Comcast's launch planned for later this year. This will mark the first North American launch of the internationally popular Disney Connection. ABC News on Comcast.net Reports from across all ABC News broadcasts are now available on Comcast.net's Internet News Channel - the site's most popular channel. Comcast High-Speed Internet customers can now watch Nightline in its entirety, as well as on demand news reports from World News Tonight, Good Morning America, This Week, 20/20 and Primetime Live. In addition to this expansive offering of on demand programming, ABC News Live also launches today on Comcast.net. ABC News Live, a built-for-broadband streaming application, delivers live breaking news events, hourly news briefs, and reports from ABC News correspondents.
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